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Agree with most of this GTC, however you left out one premiership coach who is available ATM, Paul Roos.

If I've got my numbers correct, Bolton has coached us in 76 games and won 17 of them. That's a winning ratio of just over 22%. If we win say another 4 games for the season, that will still be his winning ratio after 4 years at the helm. Will the Board stick with him again in 2020?

Probably yes because when you look at history, successful teams have stuck with their coaches for much longer during their formative years they didnt start from the low base Bolts has. I would rather follow the lead of successful club than repeat our retched recent history. Having said that, I doubt very much the powers that be will say "Bolts is good bloke, lets stick with him". Similarly, they wont say "4 wins from 39 starts, lets sack him". Somewhere in between all that, they will have KPIs set up for him which consider a multitude of factors and its those KPIs that will determine his future.

If I've got my numbers correct, Bolton has coached us in 76 games and won 17 of them. That's a winning ratio of just over 22%. If we win say another 4 games for the season, that will still be his winning ratio after 4 years at the helm. Will the Board stick with him again in 2020?

Had very little influence on the outcome of the game. When it comes to finding excuses for poor performances our files have every known justification known to humankind and beyond!

As was reported by one of the boundary riders in the media who was at the game, he said you could see the fire in the belly in the Kangaby players, it was palpable, and as soon as they hit our blokes we 'backed away'. Dawks applied heat in the 3rd qtr and we 'backed away'... and so the story goes. That's who we are and who we have been for a long time.

Our problems are solely above the shoulders.

Im not happy about the general lack of heart shown by the team and the loss overall, however, those points I've raised are not excuses, but fact and had a significant bearing on the result.

We fielded a team which included 14 players with 50 games or less AFL experience.

We were without Kruezer, Simmo, Newman - key players in our team

We lost Jones for half the game

We debuted Stocker and played willow. Stocker was nowhere near AFL ready and Willo had llittle or no match fitness.

Im not happy about the general lack of heart shown by the team and the loss overall, however, those points I've raised are not excuses, but fact and had a significant bearing on the result.

Ticker (attitude/endeavour/guts/passion) does not know about nor care about age or experience. Look at Walsh.

Ticker (attitude/endeavour/guts/passion) does not know about nor care about age or experience. Look at Walsh.

If Kreuzer, Simpson and Newman are the difference between a hiding and winning... god help us.

I never said they are the difference. logically, their absence given our team makeup/profile/age/ has a significant impact.

Kangabies also lost a key defender... earlier than we did.

Kangaroos have a much more experienced line up overall and it was only one key player. incuding jones we had 4, so your point is moot.

As for Stocker and Williamson... mates played with a poor attitude so you can't judge them at all, that kind of p1ss weak attitude goes through a side like a pandemic flu.

Are you saying they played with a poor attitude? Maybe. but my point was neither should have been selected. Fact is the players we have out and the lack of depth we have available to cover them made it necessary to play these guys. They certainly werent in the category of like for like in regards to who we have out injured.